Eight Days of Luke - Hardcover
"Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you," says Luke. David thinks he's joking, but certainly, whenever he strikes a match, Luke appears immediately. But David's new friend seems to have some dark secrets.
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“...Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Jones’s most outrageous plots to her readers’ hopes and fears...”
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Diana Wynne Jones spent her childhood in Essex and has been writing fantasy novels for children since 1973. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she has been enthralling children and adults with her work ever since. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children’s Book Award in 1981, and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. She is married with three sons, and lives in Bristol with her husband.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0333171411
- ISBN 13 9780333171417
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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Eight Days Of Luke
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Macmillan 1975 First Edition First Printing
(1975)
ISBN 10: 0333171411
ISBN 13: 9780333171417
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Book Description Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Macmillan 1975 First Edition First Printing Ex. Public Library with plates, pocket, stamps and a little tape marking on end papers, one number stamped on copyright page, lightly bumped at base of spine and page edges marked and lightly browned ?Good? book in Dust Jacket, slightly discoloured at the base of the spine, but which has been laminated to heavy plastic film at front, which has a (?removable) brown paper backing. ''There seemed nothing strange about Luke to begin with, except the snakes. 'Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you.' Luke said, and he always was. who were the people who seemed to be looking for Luke: the man with one eye, the massively malevolent gardener. the offensively sprightly Frys. '' Very Scarce. Book. Seller Inventory # 115867
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